Factors regulating the timing of puberty onset in female rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta): Role of prenatal androgens, social rank, and adolescent body weight

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1087-1094

  Zehr, Julia L ^a,b   Van Meter, Page E ^a   Wallen, Kim ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early development; Menstrual cycle; Neuroendocrinology; Puberty; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; FLUTAMIDE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVULATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL STATUS; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MACACA MULATTA; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TESTOSTERONE;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 17444389236     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.027755     Document Type: Article

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